Prove it, Senator!!
Stop the Obama Constitutional Crisis
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Dedicated to the men and women of the United States Military and dedicated to the Conservative Cause betrayed by the elitists of the now positively defunct Grand Old Party. We will seek to either rebuild or replace said same political party.
Posted by Ben at 10/25/2008 09:06:00 PM |
Labels: COLB
Cross-posted by Maggie at Maggie's Notebook
A judge’s attitude toward the factual foundation of a plaintiff’s claims is an essential factor in understanding just who indeed has standing to sue. The question running to the heart of the standing doctrine is whether or not the plaintiff indeed has a personal stake in the outcome of the otherwise justiciable matter being adjudicated. As has been discussed before many times here at America’s Right, a plaintiff wishing to have standing to sue must show (1) a particularized injury-in-fact, (2) evidence showing that that the party being sued actually caused the plaintiff’s particularized injury-in-fact, and (3) that adjudication of the matter would actually provide redress.What this means is that our Federal courts do not consider a possible fraudlent filing for the office of U.S. President, possible fraudlent campaign for President and possible fraudlent taking of the oath of office, and stepping into the Oval Office as an "injury" to the people of this country. That's the bottom line. Until an unqualified person actually takes the office, "we the people" have not been injured.
In this case, Judge Surrick’s attitude toward the evidence presented by Berg to support his allegations figures in heavily because, while there is a three-pronged test to standing in itself, there is no definitive test by which the court can determine whether a certain harm is enough to satisfy the first element of that three-pronged test by showing true injury-in-fact. Traditionally, it hasn’t taken much to satisfy the need for an injury-in-fact, but as the plaintiff’s claimed injury is perceived as being more remote, more creative, or more speculative, the injury-in-fact requirement becomes more difficult to satisfy.
If, through the political process, Congress determines that citizens, voters, or party members should police the Constitution’s eligibility requirements for the Presidency, then it is free to pass laws conferring standing on individuals like Plaintiff. Until that time, voters do not have standing to bring the sort of challenge that Plaintiff attempts to bring in the Amended Complaint.Assuming this is true, are we so naive as to think that Congress does not know this?
Posted by Maggie Thornton at 10/25/2008 08:36:00 PM |
Posted by Mark Harvey aka Snooper at 10/25/2008 07:30:00 PM |
Labels: Greenie Waldo, Sock Puppets
Posted by Mark Harvey aka Snooper at 10/25/2008 07:24:00 PM |
Labels: COLB
McCain volunteer Ashley Todd who lied to police about attack was a Paulian. She was so nutz they kicked her out of their group.Doesn't that just figure?
Posted by Mark Harvey aka Snooper at 10/25/2008 07:21:00 PM |
Labels: Frauds
Why did Barack Obama’s campaign cancel a WFTV-Channel 9 interview with Jill Biden, wife of Sen. Joe Biden? The campaign cited “an unprofessional interview” WFTV’s Barbara West did Thursday with Joe Biden. In a statement Friday, Adrianne Marsh, Florida spokeswoman for Obama’s campaign, said the station, in talking with Sen. Biden, was “both combative and woefully uninformed about simple facts.” Marsh said West’s insistence that Obama was an organizer for ACORN was “100 percent false.” “In a line of questioning that would make Rush Limbaugh proud, West even went as far as to quote Karl Marx, a Communist icon, in a disturbing attempt to associate Barack Obama with socialism,” Marsh wrote. West said, “I think I asked him some pointed questions. . . . I don’t think I was rude or inconsiderate to him.”We all know that Obama is directly involved with ACORN and that his Campaign did in fact send them $800K+ to assist in their efforts to "get out the vote". We also know that Czarbie told ACORN and other groups that they would be invited to participate in the development of his Administration. That makes Joe Biden a LIAR, does it not?
Posted by Mark Harvey aka Snooper at 10/25/2008 05:46:00 PM |
Labels: ACORN, Biden, Marxism, Progressives and Socialism
From J. Sekulow at ACLJ comes word that Egypt has submitted the annual Defamation of Religions resolution to a U.N. committee. Sekulow expects a vote to occur within a few weeks.
He reports that the ECLJ has been engaged in heavy lobbying this week, attempting to preserve our precious liberty. A recent blog post: U.N. Resolving to Silence Islamophobes explains why the resolution is absolutely intolerable. It also contains links to the draft resolution, ECLJ's legal analysis of the resolution, and related blog posts & petitions.
ACLJ has a petition against the resolution. I am one of the 86,539 who have signed their petition. I urge you to join us in condemning Islam's attempt to throw the net of their blasphemy law over our heads.
O11.10 [Dhimmitude: the treaty 'protecting' conquered Jews, Christians & Zoroastrians from further egregious predation.]
The agreement is also violated (A: with respect to the offender alone) if the state has stipulated that any of the following things break it, and one of the subjects does so anyway, though if the state has not stipulated that these break the agreement, then they do not; namely, if one of the subject people:
-1- commits adultery with a Muslim woman or marries her;
-2- conceals spies of hostile forces;
-3- leads a Muslim away from Islam;
-4- kills a Muslim;
-5- or mentions something impermissible about Allah, the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace), or Islam.
O8.7: Acts that Entail Leaving Islam
(O: Among the things that entail apostasy from Islam (may Allah protect us from them) are:
-1- to prostrate to an idol, whether sarcastically, out of mere contrariness, or in actual conviction, like that of someone who believes the Creator to be something that has originated in time. Like idols in this respect are the sun or moon, and like prostration is bowing to other than Allah, if one intends reverence towards it like the reverence due to Allah;
-2- to intend to commit unbelief, even if in the future. And like this intention is hesitating whether to do so or not: one thereby immediately commits unbelief;
-3- to speak words that imply unbelief such as ``Allah is the third of three,'' or ``I am Allah''-unless one's tongue has run away with one, or one is quoting another, or is one of the friends of Allah Most High (wali, def: w33) in a spiritually intoxicated state of total oblivion (A: friend of Allah or not, someone totally oblivious is as if insane, and is not held legally responsible (dis: k13.1(O:) ) ), for these latter do not entail unbelief;
-4- to revile Allah or His messenger (Allah bless him and give him peace);
-5- to deny the existence of Allah, His beginingless eternality, His endless eternality, or to deny any of His attributes which the consensus of Muslims ascribes to Him (dis: v1);
-6- to be sarcastic about Allah's name, His command, His interdiction, His promise, or His threat;
-7- to deny any verse of the Koran or anything which by scholarly consensus (def: b7) belongs to it, or to add a verse that does belong to it;
-8- to mockingly say, ``I don't know what faith is'';
-9- to reply to someone who says, ``There is no power or strength save through Allah''; ``Your saying `There's no power or strength, etc,' won't save you from hunger'';
-10- for a tyrant, after an oppressed person says, ``This is through the decree of Allah,'' to reply, ``I act without the decree of Allah'';
-11- to say that a Muslim is an unbeliever (kafir) (dis: w47) in words that are uninterpretable as merely meaning he is an ingrate towards Allah for divinely given blessings (n: in Arabic, also ``kafir'');
-12- when someone asks to be taught the Testification of Faith (Ar. Shahada, the words, ``La ilaha ill Allahu Muhammadun rasulu Llah'' (There is no god but Allah, Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah) ), and a Muslim refuses to teach him it;
-13- to describe a Muslim or someone who wants to become a Muslim in terms of unbelief (kufr);
-14- to deny the obligatory character of something which by the consensus of Muslims (ijma`, def: B7) is part of Islam, when it is well known as such, like the prayer (salat) or even one rak'a from one of the five obligatory prayers, if there is no excuse (def: u2.4);
-15- to hold that any of Allah's messengers or prophets are liars, or to deny their being sent;
(n: `Ala' al-din' Abidin adds the following:
-16- to revile the religion of Islam;
-17- to believe that things in themselves or by their own nature have any causal influence independent of the will of Allah;
-18- to deny the existence of angels or jinn (def: w22), or the heavens;
-19- to be sarcastic about any ruling of the Sacred Law;
-20- or to deny that Allah intended the Prophet's message (Allah bless him and give him peace) to be the religion followed by the entire world (dis: w4.3-4) (al-Hadiyya al-`Ala'iyya (y4), 423-24). )
There are others, for the subject is nearly limitless. May Allah Most High save us and all Muslims from it.)
[Reliance of the Traveller, Book O: Justice.]O11.5
Such non-Muslim subjects are obliged to comply with Islamic rules that pertain to the safety and indemnity of life, reputation, and property. In addition, they:
-1- are penalized for committing adultery or theft, thought not for drunkenness;
-2- are distinguished from Muslims in dress, wearing a wide cloth belt (zunnar);
-3- are not greeted with "as-Salamu 'alaykum";
-4- must keep to the side of the street;
-5- may not build higher than or as high as the Muslims' buildings, though if they acquire a tall house, it is not razed;
-6- are forbidden to openly display wine or pork, (A: to ring church bells or display crosses,) recite the Torah or Evangel aloud, or make public display of their funerals and feastdays;
-7- and are forbidden to build new churches.
Posted by Ben at 10/25/2008 12:49:00 PM |
Labels: Defaming Islam, Islam, Sharia Law
Posted by Mark Harvey aka Snooper at 10/25/2008 06:49:00 AM |
Labels: Beacon of Hope, Elections 2008, Hope and Change
[...] O'REILLY: You know, he did something despicable last week. He said he didn't do enough bombings. That's last week.That interview was conducted on 10 SEPT o8. If Barack doesn't know William Ayers, why then did he "see him" in 2007? The more I look into this, the more nothing adds up except that Barack DOES know William Ayers "Rather" well. Why does Barack continue to deny that which is already well known but widely ignored? The ones that are doing most of the ignoring are the ones that know more about this than we do or so it seems.
OBAMA: I haven't seen the guy in a year-and-a-half. But…
[Ed: That would be March of 2007!] [...]
[...] Barack Obama started his political career in 1996 in the living room of a domestic terrorist.Founding Bloggers brings us this video that reveals Barack PRAISING fellow New Party socialist Danny Davis at a political rally in Chicago in 2004.
Obama began his career as a member of the quasi-Marxist New Party. [...]
Posted by Mark Harvey aka Snooper at 10/25/2008 04:13:00 AM |
Labels: Obama - Ayers, Progressives and Socialism, William Ayers
A tip of the hat to World Net Daily, for linking to Noreen S. Ahmed-Ullah's South Florida Sun-Sentinel article reproduced in the Chicago Tribune. Retired General Colin Powell is quoted as saying the following on Meet The Press.
"The really right answer is: What if he is? ... Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer's no. That's not America. Is something wrong with some 7-year-old Muslim-American kid believing that he or she could be president?"Can a General who was instrumental in the Desert Storm victory and served as Secretary of State be unaware of the truth about Islam? Is there something wrong with being a Muslim? Yes, there is, in this country and everywhere. Islam is pure, unmitigated evil. Islam confers upon every sane, able bodied adult male member of Moe's Murder Cult a license to Kill Kuffar, rape their wives, sell their orphans into slavery and seize their personal property.
8:39. And fight them until there is no more Fitnah (disbelief and polytheism: i.e. worshipping others besides Allâh) and the religion (worship) will all be for Allâh Alone [in the whole of the world ]....That's what Allah said. He said fight them until... . What does it mean? Why don't you look it up in the Tafsir and see for yourself that it means exactly what it says?
O9.9
The caliph fights all other peoples until they become Muslim (O: because they are not a people with a Book,... Reliance of the Traveler, Book O, Chapter 9, Paragraph 9.
9:29.Fight against those who (1) believe not in Allâh, (2) nor in the Last Day, (3) nor forbid that which has been forbidden by Allâh and His Messenger (4) and those who acknowledge not the religion of truth (i.e. Islâm) among the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians), until they pay the Jizyah with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.
That's what Allah said. He said "fight against those who"... "until they pay the Jizya with willing submission". It can't possibly mean that. Hell no!
The caliph (o25) makes war upon Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians...
Why would the Caliph do that? Because it's Islamic law, dummy! Its based on 9:29, which is quoted in the text.
The Qur'an, Tafsir & Sharia agree; 8:39 & 9:29 are commands to make war on disbelievers. That leaves Moe; what did he say about it?
"I have been ordered to fight the people till they say: 'None has the right to be worshipped but Allah.' And if they say so, pray like our prayers, face our Qibla and slaughter as we slaughter, then their blood and property will be sacred to us and we will not interfere with them except legally and their reckoning will be with Allah." Sahih Bukhari Volume 1, Book 8, Number 387
49:15. Only those are the believers who have believed in Allâh and His Messenger, and afterward doubt not but strive with their wealth and their lives for the Cause of Allâh. Those! They are the truthful.
61:10. O You who believe! Shall I guide you to a commerce that will save you from a painful torment.It's how believers are tested and prove themselves. Its how believers earn admission to the celestial bordello. No, Hell no; they'd never do that. Then please explain how Persia, Egypt, Yemen, Spain, Turkey & half of India became Muslim. Moe and his rightly guided Caliphs had Billy Graham style Altar Calls, right? Fortunately, we have a record of what Caliph Umar's General said to the Persians.
61:11. That you believe in Allâh and His Messenger (Muhammad ), and that you strive hard and fight in the Cause of Allâh with your wealth and your lives, that will be better for you, if you but know!
61:12. (If you do so) He will forgive you your sins, and admit you into Gardens under which rivers flow, and pleasant dwelling in Gardens of 'Adn Eternity ['Adn (Edn) Paradise], that is indeed the great success.
...Our Prophet, the Messenger of our Lord, has ordered us to fight you till you worship Allah Alone or give Jizya (i.e. tribute); and our Prophet has informed us that our Lord says:-- "Whoever amongst us is killed (i.e. martyred), shall go to Paradise to lead such a luxurious life as he has never seen, and whoever amongst us remain alive, shall become your master."... Sahih Bukhari Volume 4, Book 53, Number 386The first sentence of that hadith reads as follows:
"'Umar sent the Muslims to the great countries to fight the pagans. "Just as Allah commanded, Moe ordered, Tafsirs confirm and Sharia reinforces: Islam set out to conquer the world and it will never stop until it is eradicated. Not hijacking. Not perversion. Not distortion. Islam! By design. Its a war cult. Get rid of it.
Posted by Ben at 10/25/2008 02:04:00 AM |
Labels: Islam, Qur'an and Hadith, Sharia Law
Iraq War: We don't have to wait to see Barack Obama tested by a foreign crisis. His judgment was already tested on Iraq and found wanting. John McCain passed the test, and a holocaust was avoided.Barack Hussein Obama. Liar. Fraud. Sycophant. Troll. Puppet. Moppet. Marxist. Socialist. Did I say Fraud yet? Yes, I did. OK. Fraud. Racist. Bigot. Narcissist.
In a July interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity, McCain spoke of the political risk he took in supporting the surge in Iraq. "I knew (it) was right for the country because of my background and experience and knowledge and judgment. Sen. Obama . . . voted to cut off funding for the troops in Iraq, and still will not acknowledge that the surge has succeeded." [...]
Posted by Mark Harvey aka Snooper at 10/24/2008 08:06:00 PM |
Labels: Iraqnophobia
Posted by Mark Harvey aka Snooper at 10/24/2008 09:04:00 AM |
Labels: Progressives and Socialism
Posted by Mark Harvey aka Snooper at 10/24/2008 08:16:00 AM |
Labels: Prairie Fire, William Ayers
Posted by Mark Harvey aka Snooper at 10/24/2008 07:07:00 AM |
Posted by Mark Harvey aka Snooper at 10/24/2008 06:59:00 AM |
Posted by Mark Harvey aka Snooper at 10/24/2008 06:09:00 AM |
Labels: New Party Obama, Obama Marxist, Progressives and Socialism
I brought up the subject of what will we do after we take over the government. We become responsible for administrating 250 million people…and there was no answers. No one had given thoughts to economics. How are you going to clothe and feed these people? The only thing that I could get was that they expected that the Cubans, North Vietnamese and the Chinese and the Russians would all want to occupy different portions of the United States. They also believed that thier immediate responsibility would be to protect against what they called the counter-revolution. They believed this counter-revolution could best be guarded against by creating establishing re-education centers in the south-west, where we would take all of the people that needed to be re-educated into the new way of thinking and teach them how things were going to be. I asked, well what is going to happen to those people that we can not re-educate that are die-hard capitalist? The reply was that they would have to be eliminated! When I pursued this further they estimated that they would have to eliminate 25 million people in these re-education centers. When I say eliminate, I mean kill….25 million people!The above was Larry Grathwohl who infiltrated the Weather Underground for the US Government.
"We are always warned about the individual narcissitic sociopaths; but most people don't appreciate the sociopathic qualities of groups, religions, nations, and ideologies that demand all individuals sacrifice themselves for the good of the latest utopian ideal or some blood-thirsty god."Why is it that Barack Hussein Obama is the quintessential apologist for this domestic terrorist? Why does he lie to the American People about his associations with this man William Ayers? And, why did he meet with William Ayers in 2007?
17) Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for Socialism, and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers associations. Put the party line in text books.Need we say more? OK. I will.
18) Gain control of all student newspapers.
19) Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20) Infiltrate the press. Get control of book review assignments, editorial writing, policy-making positions.
21) Gain control of key positions in radio, TV & motion pictures.
Posted by Mark Harvey aka Snooper at 10/24/2008 05:13:00 AM |
Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, Elections 2008, List of 45, Prairie Fire, William Ayers
"There is No Law that Will Stop Obama from Becoming President!"Um. Yes there is. If he isn't a Natural Born Citizen, he is certainly disqualified. Sorry to burst your bubble there Miss Hateful but there you have it. I have more on this interview located here. Maggie's Notebook wrote this the other day:
I have been on the phone with Senators Inhofe (R-OK) and Coburn's (R-OK) office for much of the morning, also with their local offices, and the RNC local office.A few things have happened here but one thing is definite - no one in the DNC vetted the candidate completely. John McCain was and his citizenship was challenged and his Natural Born Citizenship was confirmed. And Barack's? Crickets.
I eventually spoke with a Legal Correspondent in Senator Inhofe's office. I've spoken to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee and the U.S. Senate Ethics Committee. Here's what I got from those combined conversations:
There is no process to validate a candidate's natural-born citizenship status before filing for the office of The President.
Once a non-natural-born candidate is elected President, anyone can spend their hard-earned money to bring a lawsuit. One such a person is elected, then the "people" have been injured.
It is not an "injury" to the people for a candidate, knowing that he/she is not natural-born, to file illegally, campaign illegally and win illegally.
No one can confirm which, or if, either of our esteemed bodies of Congress is/are required to challenge non-natural-born status.
It seems we can be injured by having a Big Mac for lunch, but not by our governing bodies loosely and irresponsibly thwarting the U.S. Constitution.
The House and the Senate will not get into this. It's up to the "people." [...]
Good Day for those looking to find out the truth about Senator Obama's Birth Certificate. Its finally growing beyond the "blogisphere." Andy McCarthy of NRO Picked it up today and the number of Law Suits is up to eight States. Senator, if all IS kosher with your "Certificate of Live Birth" then why don't you tell Hawaii to release your Official Document? [...]More at memeorandum...
[...] Meanwhile, Philip J. Berg, a former Deputy AG of Pennsylvania and a professed Hillary supporter, filed a lawsuit claiming Obama is not constitutionally eligible to be president; instead of simply clearing up any questions — which you would think would take about five minutes — Obama's lawyers moved to dismiss the suit and failed to file a timely answer, meaning that, under the applicable rules (according to Berg), Obama is legally deemed to have admitted Berg's allegations that he is constitutionally ineligible to be president. [...]
[...] There is also the question whether he was also a citizen of one or more other countries (Kenya? Indonesia?) and whether that means, as a matter of law, that he could not be a "natural born" citizen as required by the Constitution. [...]
[...] Lawsuits Starting Across the Nation Proceeding to Avert Potential Constitutional Crisis, Possible Civil Unrest, and Confidence in Elections; Lawsuits are being filed in Eight States Seeking to Require Barack Obama to Provide Certification of Birth in U.S. Or Be Removed as Presidential Candidate on State Ballots.
Seattle WA. 10/22/2008 — Lawsuits in eight states as of this writing– Hawaii, Washington, California, Florida, Georgia. Pennsylvania, New York and Connecticut, are seeking judicial authority to force the certifying or decertifying of Senator Barack Obama’s qualification to run as a candidate for President as a natural born U.S. Citizen. Previously, two lawsuits have failed to force the certifying documents from Obama. [...]
Posted by Mark Harvey aka Snooper at 10/24/2008 03:28:00 AM |
Labels: COLB
Obama’s Religious Ruse: ‘I’ve Always Been a Christian’ (Part 1 of 3), Alexander LaBrecque.
I just finished reading this excellent essay at Family Security Matters, and I write to you with an urgent need to share LaBrecque's clear and tight analysis of Obama's deception. While I eagerly await parts 2 & 3, I urge you to read part one and give it careful consideration, then share it with your friends and family.
What we have here is a baptized Marxist who denies the biographical reality of his Muslim background, takes pride in his skepticism, is the center of his universe, is posing as a Christian, esteems the power of the christ myth, and seeks the most powerful position of authority in the world.Get a tight grip on this brilliant conclusion.
The Audacity of Hope? Obama has the audacity to claim he has always been a Christian while disbelieving the Christian hope and its foundation, the reality of Jesus’ resurrection, whereby Jesus is Lord of all. His definition of "Christian" includes being an agnostic and a skeptic. Not only is he a pseudo-Christian -- he’s a messianic poser.
Posted by Ben at 10/23/2008 07:57:00 PM |
Labels: Obama
Posted by Mark Harvey aka Snooper at 10/23/2008 10:17:00 AM |
Labels: Beirut Marines
This may be a bit uncomfortable but it warrants pointing out. Obama made this brief video appearance today to talk about his Grandmother, spinning it somewhat into a character/judgment issue: "I didn't want to make the same mistake twice." That's because he said his Mother died before he was able to get back to see her. [...]It is called the Sympathy Card because he is trying to hide from the Birth Certificate Issue that theoretically, the Hawaiian Supreme Court has "delayed" hearings until Nov 7th. It has been 72 hours since Obama announced that he was going to see his ailing Grandmother. 72 hours? I guess she isn't all that ill.
It's been almost 72 hours since Barack Obama announced he was leaving the campaign trail to be with his ailing white grandmother and from all accounts he's yet to leave for Hawaii. Hate to be harsh here, but for a guy who's lamenting not being there with his mother when she was ill, he appears to be taking his time getting to Hawaii to visit grandma. [...]I brought to your attention not too long ago why I thought that the fraud what is Obama is really going to Hawaii. And it isn't about his Grandmother that he threw under the bus for votes either.
Folks, I wish to stress that this is the only source I have on this at this time, and am working on more…imagine the only person left knowing the real truth on her deathbed. Deathbed confessions are a normal part of life. Imagine…The Astute Bloggers had something on this the other day but it was in regards to a poem that Barack wrote in tribute to his "father"...he wrote it to Uncle Frank. The plot thickens while more and more suits are filed to force the issue to its proper end...the disclosure of a damn birth certificate. That is all we are asking. Proof positive that Barack Hussein Obama is indeed CONSTITUTIONALLY eligible to be the President of the United States.
Again I stress, this is the only source at this time.
Andy Martin is the author of “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” just wrapped up a news conference at the Hawaii State Capitol. In the news release he claims that his international investigation has come to the conclusion that Barack Obama is really the son of Frank Marshall Davis, the man he refers to as his mentor, quite often in his book “Dreams From My Father”. [...]
Posted by Mark Harvey aka Snooper at 10/23/2008 07:44:00 AM |
Labels: COLB, Elections 2008
A note from Radarsite: On reposting previously published articles: If the issues addressed in a previously published Radarsite article are still pertinent and the questions raised still remain unanswered, then we will repost the article, both as a reminder of unfinished business, and of course for those who may not have read the original. For those of you who have read this piece the first time around, just skip over it. Thanks. - rg
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Can you smell it? There's a faint whiff of anarchy in the air. Nothing to get alarmed about. Not yet, anyway. Just a barely discernible unarticulated threat, a mere suggestion of a threat. But nonetheless it is there.
The voices are just whispers now, soft and faraway, but they are angry and determined: It is our time now, they are saying. You have had your time and you have used it to oppress us, to keep us down. But it is our time now. And you had better not interfere. For generations we have waited for this moment and we will not be deprived. It is our time now, and if you know what's good for you, you'd better step aside.
Of course, no one has actually come right out and said it quite this way, but there have been hints, there is something in the air. If Obama is not elected in November --
On his Fox News radio show, Tom Sullivan predicted that African-Americans would be rioting in the streets similar to what happened after the O.J. trial in the 1990s.
Let me put it to you a different way. What if Barack Obama is not -- does not win the Democratic nomination, or he does win it, and loses in the presidential race against John McCain? Is black America going to throw their hands up and say, 'Man, you know, I thought we were getting somewhere in this country, but this is just a bunch of racial bigots in this country and they still hate blacks and, I mean, if Barack Obama can't get elected, then we're never gonna have anybody that's a black that's gonna be elected president.' And will there be riots in the streets? I think the answer to that is yes and yes.
http://factbeat.com/get_story.php?id=316
If Obama is not elected, it would destroy America because this time the blacks think that America has the best possible candidate that it has got the opportunity to elect as its president.
If Obama is not elected, the blacks would feel being cheated and would rightfully think that a great candidate has not been chosen just because of his skin colour and would be antagonised permanently.
For those well-intentioned observers amongst us, this 2008 presidential race has nothing whatsoever to do with race. They are still trying their level best to convince us all of this. The unprecedented fact of Obama's blackness, and it's symbolic meaning to African-Americans and, as we are beginning to see, to people of color around the world is to simply be ignored. In fact, they confidently reassure us, an Obama presidency would prove to the world that race doesn't matter in America, that we have moved beyond all that, that we have deeply regretted our shameful past and are willing to make amends. It is after all Time for Change. Change we can believe in.
But the question still remains: will our November elections, whatever their outcome, be but another example of Democracy in action, or could they be the OJ Simpson trial writ large?
Is this to be a presidential election, or a test of racial power? Are the issues really as simple as black and white -- or colored and white? Has it really come down to this? Us versus Them?
It is probably safe to say that to most Americans this presidential election is still about Republicans and Democrats, conservatives and liberals, the economy, national security, and the war in Iraq.
There are others, however, both here and abroad for whom this election represents something altogether different. If Barack Hussein Obama wins the Presidency of the United States of America this November then all is right with the world and Democracy is alive and well.
But if he loses the presidency, if he is deprived of the presidency, it would prove that white supremacy is still in control of the engines of power in America -- and furthermore, they say, if a black candidate with the following and support of a Barack Obama can't become president, then no black man will ever be allowed to become president. And this cannot be tolerated.
Perhaps more than any other American Presidential election in history, this 2008 contest is being watched by the whole world. To a surprising number of people around this world Barack Hussein Obama is not just a black American presidential candidate; he is the symbol for an oppressed race, a symbol for all of the oppressed colored peoples of this world, a champion in their fight against that never-ending blight of white post-colonialist oppression, a symbol of their righteous anger and the promise of racial retribution. For these unhappy souls, it truly is to be Us versus Them.
Will it be Watts 1965 redux if Obama loses his bid for the Presidency of the United States?
Does this election have anything at all to do with race?
We shall see.
Original article posted on 6/8/08
For an interesting update see our article on the black vote in the Army Times Poll
Posted by Roger W. Gardner at 10/23/2008 07:35:00 AM |
Editor's Note: Stephanie Bernhard is a writer for the Brown Daily Herald, the leading news source for Brown University. This article was brought to CNN.com by UWIRE, the leading provider of student-generated content. UWIRE aims to identify and promote the brightest young content creators and deliver their work to a larger audience via professional media partners such as CNN.com. Visit UWIRE.com to learn more.Kind of odd, but, here is a snippet:
More than 3,000 educators nationwide, including six Brown University professors, have signed a statement supporting William Ayers -- the man Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain called a "washed-up terrorist" at the third presidential debate.More musings being gathered at Memeorandum...
In recent months, the McCain campaign has criticized Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama for his connection to Ayers. McCain and his running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin, have accused Obama of being "friends" with Ayers and claimed Obama has hidden the extent of their relationship.
Both residents of the Chicago, Illinois, area, Ayers and Obama first met in 1995 when they served on the board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a school reform initiative. They also were board members of the Woods Fund, a Chicago charity, from 2000 to 2002. [...]
17) Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for Socialism, and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers associations. Put the party line in text books.
18) Gain control of all student newspapers.
19) Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20) Infiltrate the press. Get control of book review assignments, editorial writing, policy-making positions.
21) Gain control of key positions in radio, TV & motion pictures.
Posted by Mark Harvey aka Snooper at 10/23/2008 06:52:00 AM |
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